It's not luck when it's happened consistently over a year and a half, plus the last half of the prior year.

Yep, and with how good the Royals have been defensively, you can say the Mets have been pretty lucky, too... seems like they've made more errors and dumb mental mistakes this series than the rest of the postseason, where as the Mets weren't exactly a great defensive team to begin with, from what I've read.

A lot of that washes out and you end up with the same relentless Royals team that we've watched for 200+ games.

And Joe Buck just said he "could make the case that this is the best team I've covered in 18 years [in the World Series]."

He was comparing our offense to the 98 Yankees earlier this postseason. I don't think we're quite that good, and our starting pitching isn't as good as theirs. That 98 Yankees team won like 114 games during the season. We could've won more if we hadn't fell asleep in September, but still. We're better defensively and have a deeper bullpen, but the 98 Yankees were an all time great team.